Rainey, Vandegrift lead panel at NISO privacy conference

Hannah Rainey (Associate Head, Research Engagement) and Micah Vandegrift (Open Knowledge Librarian) spoke about the Libraries’ Immersive Scholar program at the NISO Virtual Conference on Privacy in an Age of Surveillance in mid-September.

Their panel talk, entitled “Playing Data Tracking and the Attention Economy: An Immersive Scholar Creative Residency Case Study,” addressed the important role that libraries play in the work of information literacy, especially around our shared, lived experiences online in a post-pandemic environment. They focused on the fall 2020 Immersive Scholar creative residency with artists and designers Joelle Dietrick and Owen Mundy, based on their browser-based game Tally Saves the Internet which explores data surveillance and the attention economy.